Continuous process for oxidizing carbohydrates to tartaric acid



Patented Apr. 15, 1947 CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR OXIDIZING v CARBOHYDRATEST TARTARIC ACID Ralph A. Hales, West Chester, Pa., assignor to AtlasPowder Company, Wilmington, Del., a corporation of Delaware ApplicationOctober 23, 1944, Serial No. 560,022. I

2 Claims.

The present invention relates to the nitric acid oxidation ofcarbohydrate materials to produce valuable acid values and in particularto the oxidation of glucose-containing materials to produce tartaric andoxalic acid values.

An object of the invention is to provide a more efficient and economicalprocess for oxidizing carbohydrate materials, particularly glucose orpolysaccharides capable of yielding glucose rapidly on hydrolysis, tothe industrially valuable tartaric and oxalic acids.

A further object of the invention is to provide a process for obtaininghigh tartaric and oxalic acid value yields from carbohydrate materialwith relatively small carbon loss in the form of other products.

Another object is to provide a rapid process for the production oftartaric and oxalic acid values.

Other objects will become apparent from the following description.

The nitric acid oxidation of carbohydrate materials to produce highyields of tartaric and oxalic acids is inherently a difficult problem.The carbon chain of the carbohydrate materials must be selectively cutso as to leave a portion oxidizable to tartaric acid. To get d-tartaricacid, at present the most desirable of the tartaricacids, from thecarbohydrate, d-glucose, the gluconic chain must be cut between the 4and 5 carbon atoms into a 4-carbon and a 2-carbon fragment. Then thelarger portion must oxidize to tartaric acid and the smaller portion tooxalic acid, thus:

' and oxalic acids, and a residue of less highly evolved from thereaction so that the oxidizing power varies continually and in a mannervery difiicult of exact control throughout the period of use. Theautocatalytic nature of its reaction with carbohydrate and otherpolyhydroxylic materiai likewise makes control of temperature andconcentration difficult to achieve.

The economic practicability of the process depends to a considerableextent on the recovery of the nitrogen in a form such that it can beregenerated, for example, by air oxidation, to nitric acid. To beregenerable the evolved nitrogen gases should be reduced to a stage nolower than NO. The oxide, N20, and elemental nitro IOHO $00}! N n t d'lv bl 3 gen, 2, are 0 rea 1y con era HOOH 5 Thus it is seen that thereaction is one of 1 9 oxidation and reduction in which both the oxi-H0011 (Boon dation and the reduction proceed complexly by stages andthrough a succession of products, and I 40 both the oxidation and thereduction should be 333011 COOK stopped before their completion. I

CHzOH 0003 According to this invention a process has been devised whichis more eflicient, subject to better control, and more economical thanpreviously known processes for making tartaric acid from carbohydratematerial.

For starting materials in the process of this invention, there may beused water-soluble carbohydrate materials oxidizable in solution bynitric acid to tartaric acid. By the term carbohydrate material is meantto be included not only compounds containing hydrogen and oxygen in theproportions of water, but also other polyhydroxylic materials, such ashexitols, penti tols, erythritol, sugar acids, including aldehydic andketonic acids, other similar materials and materials readilyhydrolyzable to these. Such materials are commonly classed ascarbohydrates. Most hexoses, such as fructose or mannose andparticularly d-glucose which isavailable in pure form, free from ash, ofconstant composition, and at a low price, are readily usable in myprocess. Carbohydrate materials readily hydrolyzable by acid to otherstarting materials are equivalent to those materials. Among suchmaterials are included oligoor polysaccharides, such as starch,dextrine, corn syrup, sucrose and high test molasses (partially invertedraw cane sugar) which readily hydrolyze to hexoses. Butadiene dioxidewhich hydrolyzes readily to erythritol may also be used in this process.An available and advantageous group of starting materials is thatcomposed of glucose, fructose, pento'ses, gluconic acid,

to insoluble intermediate products for insolubles are not practicallyfurther oxidizable in this reaction.

Nitric acid oxidizing agent may be introduced into the reaction mixtureas such, in which case it is preferred that it contain a little loweroxide of nitrogen which appears to act catalytically toward thereaction;or it may be formed in situ by passing into the reaction mixture amixture of oxidizable nitrogen oxides and air or other oxygen-containinggas, or by introduction of higher oxides of nitrogen which have beenformed outside the reaction mixture. In this specification and claims bythe term introducing nitric acid is meant its introduction by any ofthese methods.

The reaction requires a catalyst to give a practical yield of tartaricacid. Any oxidation catalyst directive for tartaric acid production, anumber of which are known in the art, can be used. Various polyvalentmetal compounds are operative for this purpose, including compounds ofvanadium, manganese, iron and molybdenum. Vanadium in the form of itssoluble pentavalent compounds such as sodium orthovanadatehexadecahydrate (NasVOalGHzO) is a most efiicient catalyst and ispreferred.

The gasesevolved from the reaction usually contain somewhat less thannonrecoverable nitrogen as N2 or N30 and the remaining oxides ofnitrogen can be converted to nitric acid without particular purificationeither at atmospheric pressure or after compression as, for example, to

the customary 6-7 atmospheres; or they may be oxidized and absorbed inthe reaction mixture.

further quantities are produced. Particularly is this decomposition trueof oxalic acid. However, in order to permit the reaction'to proceed atareasonable rate, it is necessary that it beperformed at somewhatelevated temperatures.

, It is probable that during the reaction nitrogen esters are formed inthe solution and that the final products are largely released from suchesters with evolution of the lower nitrogen oxides formed in theprocess. In any event the presence of nitrogen compounds interferes withrecovery of tartaric acid. Hence, it is desirable to complete thereduction to lower and volatile oxides I of nitrogen before attemptingproduct separa- At the start, the reaction usually takes place .withconsiderable violence and requires strenuous cooling to keep it undercontrol. As the reactants become used up and more diluted the re-'action moderates so that, a: a rule, heating eventually becomesnecessary to make it continue at a reasonable rate. The reaction doesnot appear to proceed uniformly as a whole through different compoundsof successively greater degree of oxidation, but rather a number ofdiiferent products and intermediztes exist together. Unduly hightemperatures in the reaction are disadvantageous.

At the beginning of the reaction they permit it to get out of hand andproceed to undesirable materials, such as carbon dixide, and later ontend to destroy desired product which has been formed and which it isdesired to retain while tion. However, as the reaction progresses, andthe reactants become less concentrated and less reactive, oxidationslows down. It then .becomes necessary to heat the reactants higher thanis desirable from the standpoint of stability of product to completeevolution of nitrogen oxides in a practicable time. One method ofprocedure which has been found desirable is to conduct the reaction inaplurality of stages; first at lower temperatures and finally at highertemperatures to complete oxide of nitrogen evolution. .The first or mainpart of the reaction which is called the blow period is largelyexothermic and is preferably conducted at 60 to C. While temperaturesoutside this range may be employed, higher temperatures, as has beenmentioned above, may tend to destroy the product and produce losseswhiletoo low temperatures are apt to unduly prolong the reaction. The lastperiod which is called the fume-off stage is desirably conducted at to100 C.; though again temperatures outside this range are permissible.While there may be a multiplicity of stages from low to hightemperatures, it has been found that two stages, ablow stage in thelower range and most prefer-- ably at about 70 C. and a fume-01f stagein the higher range and preferably atabout C., are often entirelysatisfactory.

Efilcient nitric acid recovery is essential to the economics of theprocess. However, with the rate of reaction of any given quantity ofreactants decreasing as the concentration of fresh materialsdiminishesQthe flow of evolving oxides of nitrogen also falls off. Yet,efiicient operation of nitric acid recovery equipment requires arelatively constant flow of oxides of nitrogen. It has been found thatthis condition of varying flow of oxides of nitrogen can be eliminatedifreactants are continuously added to a reaction vessel at a uniform rateand product is continuously removed. In this way the reaction isconstantly augmented by fresh reactants and spent reactants arecontinuously removed. Relatively constant conditions of reaction andevolution of oxides of nitrogen result.

Since at least two temperature zones are desirable for the reaction, itis preferred in the case of continuous reaction to run the reactingsolution through a successioh of at least two temperature zones, onecorresponding to the blow period and another corresponding to thefumeoif period. The major evolution of oxides of nitrogen takes place inthe blow period, and for this reason it may be desirable to operate onlythat one continuously. If the reactants are continuously passed througha zone corresponding to the blow period, the holding time in that zoneshould be such that completion of the blow reaction takes place there.Much improved mixing of reactants and more eificient; and constantreaction may be obtained if, instead of one zone,

a plurality of successive zones are employed for the blow. Then theholding time in each zone should be smaller, and reactants are mixed ineach zone. As exemplary of one embodiment of this invention, the blowperiod may be conveniently broken up into three reaction zones ar-'ranged in a series. The fume-off period may .also beconductedcontinuously in a similar manner or it may be conducted inbatch fashion.

The flow need not be absolutely uniform or continuous to and/or from thereaction; itv may be fluctuating or intermittent. It is only neces'-sary that, for the best use of nitrogen recovery equipment, the flow bein such a manner that a variation of oxides of nitrogen evolution of nomore than about 25% and preferably no more than 5% is obtained, In caseof intermittent feed, this requires only that the ratio of the zone sizeto each injection of rectants be such that a sufficiently constant flowof oxides of nitrogen is obtained.

, It has been found that reaction times may be very considerablyshortened andtproduct recovshows one type which has been found to besuccessful.

Catalyst from tank where it is made up in water solution, is added bymeans of valve 19 to reaction chamber l4. Also added to chamber |4 arenitric acid from tank I 2 by mean's of pipe cries materially increasedif the reaction soluuct because of the relatively high temperaturesemployed, which result in product decomposition during its longduration. Concentration priorto fume-off makes that period much shorterand increases yields of product. Concentration may be effected byheating the reaction solution under conditions of high surface exposureto evaporate off water. One method. of concentrating. which has beenfound satisfactory, is accomplished by passing reacting solutionemerging from the blow stages of reaction in a film through a heatedtower. Concentration itself may entail the use of higher temperaturesthan would otherwise be used in the reaction, but if the surfaceexposure of the reaction solution is sufficient, enough evaporation maybe completed in a short enough time that the reaction may then becompleted under normal fume-ofi conditions'much more rapidly and withless product decomposition overall. Film-type concentration in a heatedtower may be .aided by the use of counter-current flow of a carrier gas.rier gas is more eificient if it is dry and, desirably, it may alsocontain lower oxides of nitrogen. Lower oxides of nitrogen are productsof the decomposition of nitric acid and are dissolved in the reactionsolution. They appear to act catalytically and aid the reaction. By apartial pressure effect, lower nitrogen oxides used as a carrier gas aidremoval of water and tend to keep the dissolved nitrogenoxides in thesolution so that they may perform their catalytic function also be aidedand lower temperature operation permitted by the imposition of a vacuumon the concentrating solution. but it is preferred, to prevent undueescape of the desirable nitrogen oxides, that too high a vacuum be notapplied. Other rapid methods of concentration may also be employed, asfor example, film type evapora- A car- I8 and valve I6, and carbohydratematerial from hopper |3 by means of screw 20. Reaction chamber M whichis a blow chamber is equipped with stirring device l5 and heat exchangecoil Reaction chamber I4 is also equipped with reflux condenser 2| whichleads into oxide of nitrogen line 22. Reflux condenser 2| is arranged sothat nitric acid fumes and water may be condensed and returned toreaction chamber I4. This is not a necessary feature but assists in theeflicient use of acid.

From reaction chamber M which is maintained at the desired temperatureby means of heat exchange coil H, the reaction solution proceeds by pipe23 and pump P1 into reaction chamber 24 which is equipped imilarly 'tochamber'l4 with stirring apparatus 25, heat exchange coil 26, and

reflux condenser which also leads to main 22. Chamber 24 is another blowchamber.

From chamber 24, through pipe 29 and pump P2 into reaction chamber 30which also is equipped with an agitator 3|, heat exchange coil 32, and areflux condenser 33 which leads into main 22. Chamber 30 is a third blowchamber.

From reaction chamber 30, solution flows through pipe 34 and valve 28into a concentrator represented by numeral 35, As shown, theconcentrator is made of a tube 36 which is jacketed by a steam chamber31. Entering by pipe 34 reacting solution flows in a film down heatedwall 36. Concentrator 35 is further equipped with an air inlet tube 40controlled by valve 38 and an outlet line 4| containing a trap 10. Airinlet tube 40 provides a carrier gas which flows counter to solutionflowing down tube 36 Trap 10 serves vto maintain a small pool of liquidin the bottom use the concentrator, it may be short circuited in thefume-off reaction. Concentration may tion as is obtained with some ofthe long tube evaporators available commercially.

by means of line 65 and valve 39. These reaction chambers are used toperform the fume-off and bers are to be operated; alternately in batchoperation, valve 55 shouldbe closed. Liquor will then pass through pipe4| and valve 69; which is opened, into pipe 49 and into reaction chamberreaction solution flows hydrate material,

7 42 until that chamber is full. 'Then valve 59 is closed and reactionliquor is passed through pipe 4| and valve 55 into reaction chamber 43.Before reaction chamber 43 is filled, fume-off reaction must becompleted in chamber 42 and it must have been exhausted through line 50and valve Bl into line will also valve 55. While the fume-oi? isperformed in chamber 43, valve 69 will be opened to admit a new chargeinto chamber 42. By the time filling of chamber 42 is completed chamber43 must have been exhausted through line 49 and valve 61 into line 5|Then chamber 43 is filled while reaction is completed in chamber 42 andit is exhausted and so on. These fume-off chambers may also be connectedfor continuous parallel operation if desired. Chambers 42 and 43 areequipped with vapor lead-ofi lines 52 and 53 respectively which leadevolved gases to line 22.

From pipe 5| oxidized solution passes by means of pump P4 to a recoverysystem represented generally at 5'! from which tartaric acid values andoxalic acid values are obtained as well as a residue of partiallyoxidized material which is passed through pipe 58 to an evaporatorpreferably of the vacuum type, represented generally at 59 andfrom therethrough. line 60 by means of pump P5 to a storage chamber 62.

The nitrogen oxide fumes evolved from reaction chambers I4, 24 and 30,concentrator 35, and fume-on chambers 42 and 43 may be passed to anysuitable nitric acid recovery system, Such systems are well known in theart and one is represented generally on the drawing as 63. From a nitricacid recovery system nitric acid may flow through pipe 64 to storagetank [2.

The residue contained in storage tank 62 is very advantageously used asa starting carbo- It may be led from storage tank 62 through pipe 65 andvalve 68 into reaction vessel l4. Preferably, it is augmented with freshcarbohydrate material from hopper l3.

The use of residue as part of the starting material is highlyadvantageous for a number of reasons. Since it is already partiallyoxidized, it serves to temper the violent reactivity of the freshreactants. Also, it makes for a great increase in economy of the processbecause of the use it makes of the potential product contained in theresidue. Furthermore, when residue is recycled the process can beoperated to obtain less product per cycle but more product overall. Thisis possible probably because as the reaction is performed that portionof the product which is at first formed is subject to destructionthrough further oxidation and decomposition while the remainder of it isbeing produced. If it is known that, the residue will not be wasted, itis possible to perform less oxidation in each cycle and therebydecompose or destroy less product. Also, the use of residue in cyclicoperation permits a greater constancy of operation, particularly if, asis preferred, the process is operated so that residue is added atapproximately the same rate at which it is formed.

The nitric acid recovery system can operate efiiciently in the processof the present invention because at all times relatively constantconditions are maintained in each of the blow reaction chambers and theoxides of nitrogen evolving from these chambers do so at a relativelyconstant rate. Batch operation of the fume-oil stage is permissiblealong with continuous blow operation because of the relatively smallevolution of nitrogen oxides in that stage.

Valve 8| will then be closed as Removal of product from the reactedsolution may be performed in any desirable manner. Usually the greaterpart of the oxalic acid content may be crystallized as such by simplecooling. The remaining oxalic acid may then be removed in the form ofzinc oxalate by the addition of a zinc salt, for example, basic zinccarbonate, and finally tartaric acids may be precipitated similarly inthe form of zinc tartrates. Calcium or other salts which produceinsoluble oxalates and tartrates also may some times be used for thispurpose, Separation may also be accom plished by preparing volatileoxalic and tartaric esters which may be separated from one another byfractional distillation.

Control of certain of the reaction conditions, such as quantity ofcatalyst, quantity of acid, temperature, and rate or flow, is highlydesirable. Proper conditions vary somewhat in dependence upon theparticular carbohydrate material which is employed. Illustrativeconditions which usually give best results with glucose are given below.Knowing these, suitable values for other specific materials can beascertained. With the glucose starting material, sodium orthovanadatehexadecahydrate catalyst proportions should be approximately 0.01 to0.03% of the fresh glucose. The quantity of acid used should depend uponthe amount of residue employed. If no residue is used, a value betweenabout 4 and 5 pounds of 100% HNO; per pound of total carbon in theglucose is desirable. When residue is used to the extent of about 0.5 toabout 0.9 pound of residue carbon per pound of carbon in glucose, thedesirable acid range will vary roughly inversely between about 4 andabout 3 pounds of 100% HNOs per pound of total carbon. The carboncontents which determine these ratios may be readily determined bycustomary methods such as combustion analysis or wet methods, as forexample, that taught by Pollard and Forsee, Industrial & EngineeringChemistry, Analytical Edition, vol. 7, p. '77 (1935). Water should beemployed in quantities between about 30 and 70% of the weight of HNOaplus water employed. As has been stated previously. blow temperaturesgenerally should run between about 60 and C. and preferably about 70 VC.The fume-off temperatures usually run to about to 100 C. For bestresults, concentration temperature should not be much above the degreeof temperature at which the solution boils at atmospheric pressure.Concentration should be continued for best results to a degree at leastsuch that the reaction may be later completed in less than approximatelyone hour at C. Under preferred conditions with the use of concentration,the blow period should last about two hours and the fume-01f aboutonehalf hour. The end of the fume-oh period may be determined by the useof starch iodide indicator paper to test for oxides of nitrogen. Theseparticular specific conditions are not necessary to the obtent-ion ofpractical results. The use of them will, however, be found to give goodyields.

It is not necessary that all additions of react ants take place in thefirst reaction chamber, but reactants may be added in part at laterstages of the reaction. However, if this is done, specific preferredoperation conditions may be somewhat dillercnt from those given above.

The followingexamples demonstrate certain embodiments of the invention.

Example 1 Apparatus similar to that diagrammatically tartrates.

shown in the drawings may be used in this example. Apparatus is set upso that chambers i4, 24 and 30 each hold 1.8 liters of reacting solutionand may be operated in series as shown. In this example no residue isused with the reactants but only fresh glucose. Glucose is fed intochamber M at the rate of 697.3 grams per hour along with enough 55%nitric acid to provide 46 g. of HNO3 for each gram of carbon in theglucose (this amounts to about 2330 g. of nitric acid solution perhour). Also fed into chamber I 4 is sodium orthovanadate hexadecahydratecatalyst in an amount of 0.015% of Na3VO4.16H2O based on glucoseemployed. The total of materials so fed into the reaction vessel amountsto about 2.16 liters per hour of which approximately 1.05 liters arewater. After passing successively through chambers I4, 24 and 30 each ofwhich is maintained at about 70 C. the solution is run into concentrator35. Concentrator 35 is a steam jacketed 4 foot length of chrome-steelpipe of 1 inches inside diameter. The jacket is kept under 4 pounds persquare inch gauge of wet steam, and air is passed in the bottom throughline 40 and valve 38 at the rate of 0.6 cubic foot per minute. A smallpool of liquid is maintained in the bottom of concentrator 35. Fromconcentrator 35 the reaction solution passes through pipe 4| into fume-Echambers 42 and 43. These chambers may be operated alternately asdescribed above and at about 95 C. The reacted solution in pipe 5|passes to recovery system 51. In recovery system 5! the reacted solutionwhich contains about 35.8% of water is cooled to about 6 C. and held atthat temperature for approximately one-half hour, then a crop of oxalicacid crystals is filtered out. Following this there is added to themother liquor basic zinc carbonate equivalent to 15% of the totaltitre-table acidity. This results in the precipitation of the remainderof the oxalic acid as zinc oxalate. After filtering ofi this precipitatea further quantity of basic zinc carbonate equivalent to one-half theoriginal acidity should be added to precipitate zinc Calculated asacids, yields based on weight of glucose fed in are 41.1% oxalic aciddihydrate and 26.5% tartaric acid. However, the mother liquor afterprecipitation contains partially oxidized material with some zinc.Preferably the zinc should be precipitated by addition of an equivalentamount of oxalic acid and is essentially removed from the solution byfiltration of the resulting zinc oxalate. The filtrate from this salt isthen evaporated in evaporator 59 to a residue containing approximately80% solids and represents approximately 0.36 gram carbon per gram oforiginal glucose carbon fed into chamber [4. It is stored in tank .62.

Example 2 In this. example the same apparatus may be employed as inExample 1, but residue which was produced according to that example isused to provide part of the feed. In this way recovery of furtherproduct is obtained from the residue and it is not wasted. Alsopartially oxidized residue tempers the reaction of the readilyoxidizable fresh carbohydrate material and aids greatly in control ofthe reaction. In this run 635.5 g. of glucose are fed into the systemper hour along with enough residue to provide a residue carbon toglucose carbon ratio of 0.643. A smaller proportion of'nitric acid isneeded this time, since part of the feed has already been partiallyoxidized. Enough acid is added to provide about 36.6% water.

3.50 g. of nitric acid apparatus is operated in the same manner as inExample 1. Thefume-ofi stages are operatedfor about half an hour toremove oxides of nitrogen. After fume-oil the reacted solution containsThe use of residue in the feed is reflected in higher yields. Oxalicacid and zinc oxalate calculated as oxalic acid dihydrate equivalent to62.4% of the weight of glucose feedare obtained, while a yieldequivalent to 40.8% tartaric acid is obtained. Also obtained is afurther quantity of residue containing 0.643 g. of

' carbon per gram of carbon in the glucose fed in.

Example 3 This example shows a run made without the use of theconcentrating tower. Conditions should be changed for this run; thetemperatures are raised; fiow is decreased; and the volumes in the firstthree chambers are increased to provide added time for the reaction.Glucose is fed in at the rate of 423.5 g. per hour along with enoughresidue from another run to provide 0.67 g. of residue carbon per gramof glucose carbon. Acid is fed in to provide 3.50 g. of I-INO; per gramof total carbon and diluted to provide acid in the reaction mixtureequivalent to 55% of the acid and water present. Catalyst also is fed inin an amount equal to 9.015% of the fresh glucose. 1.80 liters per hour.Chambers 14, 24, and 30 this time contain 2.70 liters each and areoperated at 70, and 99 C. respectively. Solution is then held in chamber42 or chamber 43 for 34 minutes at 99 C. After fume-off the reactedsolutions contain about 41.0% water. From this run is obtained productequivalent to about 38.6% of oxalic acid dihydrate, about 36.4% oftartaric acid, and a residue which contains 0.550 g. of carbon per gramof glucose carbon fed in. It may be seen that while yields without theconcentrator are still high, the use of the concentrator improves themmaterially. p

Continuous operation according to this disclosure proceeds smoothly withrelatively constant conditions in each of the reaction chambers in thapparatus and a, steady flow of oxides of nitrogen highly suitable forthe nitric acid recovery equipment is obtained.

The method herein described is not limited to the apparatus indicated inthe drawing, but other types of apparatus can readily be designed inwhich the steps may be performed.

By the term tartaric acid as used in the specification and claims ismeant any of the three tartaric acids,d-, 1-, and mesa-tartaric acid.

What is claimed is:

1. A process for the preparation of tartaric and oxalic acid valueswhich comprise adding to a reaction zone over an extended period oftime, water, a residue of the type hereinafter described,

nitric acid, carbohydrate material oxidizable in solution by nitric acidto tartaric acid and selected from the group consisting of glucose, fructose, pento-ses, gluconic acid, erythritol, ketogluconic acids, andmaterials rapidly hydrolyzable to these, and a catalyst directive fortartaric acid This allamounts to a flow of 1 1 preparation, maintainingsaid reaction zone at a temperature oi not more than about 80 C. andmaintaining the reactant proportions such that tartaric acid is formed,removing partially reacted liquor from said zone over an extended periodof time and pasdng said partially reacted liquor through a concentratingzone wherein water is rapidly removed from said liquor by heatme saidliquor under conditions of high surface exposure and short contact time,passing the concentrated liquor into. a zone maintained between about 90C. and about 100 C. in which the reaction is completed, and thenremoving tartaric and oxalic acid from the reacted liquor, leaving apartially oxidized residue.-

v 2. A process according to claim in which the anemone man The followingreferences are of record in the 5 .file of this patent:

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